M.V. Kini’s desire to build something of his own and his passion for law inspired him to turn his back on a promising career in banking and turn to criminal law. Started out of one office with four employees in Mumbai back in 1978, MVKini has now grown its operational base to 16locations around India with more than 150 employees.

The Firm’s portfolio has grown and diversified over the years and now includes practitioners in corporate, banking, finance, environmental, consumer finance, infrastructure, customs and international business taxation law. This growth is fuelled by M.V. Kini’s ability to always see the bigger picture and stay ahead of the curve – recognising up and coming sectors in the Indian market and providing legal assistance to industry pioneers. Whether it is aviation, infrastructure or, more recently, banking and environmental law, the Firm’s success has hinged on this key ability.

M.V. Kini is on the panel of lawyers representing the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and has personally represented AAI in several landmark cases. From coming up with innovative solutions to end a standoff between the AAI and the Mumbai municipality, effectively resolving the issue of the unionisation of the air-traffic control department to ending the aviation company’s pilot strike, M.V. Kini is widely recognised as one of the foremost experts in aviation law in the country. M.V. Kini is also recognised as an expert in prosecuting white collar crimes. He has led several high profile prosecutions in fraud cases in banks, both nationalised and private, including against cover-ups of scams in the financial sector in general.

In recent years he has represented various international business interests in India, helping them navigate the often-daunting legal and infrastructural set up in the country.

Working with pan-India entities like the National Highways Authority of India has in part led to the Firm’s expansion in operations throughout the country. MVKini now also represents more than 63 international and local banks and in excess of 100 public sector undertakings. Drawing on his background and interest in banking he is the author of two books on the Negotiable Instruments Act,1881 and a separate practical guide for bankers dealing in consumer finance.

The Firm’s expansion has been characterised by a streamlining of the corporate management with the appointment of professional business administrators to oversee operations, leaving lawyers to get on with advising clients. As India grows and finds its place in a rapidly shrinking world, M.V. Kini is driving the Firm’s evolution. With the largest network of offices of any Indian law firm, MVKini provides a full service offering to its clients. “Our goal is to provide complete legal cover for our clients’ various needs. So that when they come in to our offices, they know their legal issues, no matter how diverse they may be, will be taken care of,” said M.V. Kini. “So the next five years will be very crucial to those growth plans.”

Practice Areas
Banking and Finance
Corporate and Commercial
Litigation
Project Finance in Infrastructure
Aviation
Shipping and Maritime

Contact details
Mumbai office
mvkini@mvkini.com
+91 22 2261 2527

Ravi is MVKini’s Managing Attorney. Ravi holds an LL.M. in International Financial Laws from the University of Georgia, USA where he specialised in Derivatives Risk Framework.

Ravi is one of India’s leading practitioners of law relating to national and state highways projects. He is also renowned for his work in the aviation, government affairs, and banking sectors.

Ravi advises NHAI and state authorities on highways and related projects. He advises on international competitive bidding in Public Private Partnerships (PPP). He has a wealth of experience advising the Indian government on bid processes, and drafts and vets tender documents and contracts. He is skilled in incorporating Special Purpose Vehicles and executing concession agreements and contracts for selected bidders.

His expert knowledge comes from advising on a wide range of projects executed/funded in this way. They include the development of a free trade and warehousing zone, the creation of industrial training and skills development centres, the building of rail-related manufacturing facilities as well as ports terminals, IT parks and other urban transport projects.

Ravi’s public-sector experience gives him a unique understanding of how government functions. Ravi leads a team that effectively mediates industry concerns to the relevant government body to swiftly arrive at constructive outcomes.

His significant experience in the aviation sector has led him to advise on ground-handling issues across a number of airports. Ravi’s experience extends to advising bodies, such as IATA, on Competition Law issues. His extensive experience includes advising India’s national carrier. He negotiated and drafted the contracts for the leading aviation company’s purchase of 68 commercial aircrafts from Boeing, in a US$7 billion deal. He also assisted in the formation of its low-cost subsidiary, Air India Express. He regularly drafts and vets aircraft leasing agreements.

Ravi leads a team that supports Indian companies seeking access to foreign capital through external commercial borrowings (ECB). The team regularly interprets RBI circulars and is able get swift clarification from the regulator as required. He and his team act as the lender’s legal counsel, participating in negotiations with borrowers ensuring compliance of banking law and practise. Keeping the lenders’ interests at the fore, they assist with securities’ creation and perfection of charge documentation. Ravi was named as leading lawyer in the aviation sector in ‘Who’s Who Legal’ (Aviation, 2010) and listed in the ‘Leading LAWYER 100’ 2011 Annual Guide, which recognizes members of the legal community who have stood out among their peers by demonstrating professional achievement and excellence in their area of practice. He was also recognised as a key commercial lawyer in the International Who’s Who Legal (Commercial Litigation, 2009).

Practice Areas
Aviation
Project Finance
Banking and Finance
Corporate and Commercial
Government Affairs
Power and Energy
Shipping and Maritime

Contact details
Delhi office
ravikini@mvkini.com
(91) 11 2437 1038/1039/1040

The Law Firm that S.D. Shetty joined, fresh out of law school at Mumbai University in 1987, is virtually unrecognisable to him today. From the tens of clients that the Firm had back then, the MVKini of today represents thousands of clients, both in the public and private sector, in several different practice areas across the country.

The partner at the Firm has been with MVKini his entire career as a litigation lawyer and specialises in property law, arbitration and documentation relating to agreements, company schemes and property matters. He is also an expert in litigation in service matters relating to Articles 226 and 227 of the Indian Constitution.

S.D. Shetty has been instrumental in some of the Firm’s high profile cases relating to property law. He represented the International Airports Authority of India (IAAI) to help prove its ownership of Mumbai’s Chhatrapati International Airport. The long-running case went from the lower court all the way to the Supreme Court. The decision was given in his client’s favour proving ownership of the property valued at over Rs.10bn.

His other landmark cases involved the resolution of the service matter between the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company and its concerned 12,000 employees. The favourable decision taken in favour of S.D. Shetty’s client in the High Court was upheld in the country’s Supreme Court. Whether it is cases relating to infrastructure law or highways, airports or family property disputes, his diverse experience in criminal proceedings including service and property cases of all kinds has served MVKini well.

Practice Areas
Litigation
Dispute Resolution

Contact details
Mumbai office
sd.shetty@mvkini
(91)22 2261 2527

The government affairs and land acquisition expert has been with MVKini for the last 14 years. A student of STS High School (Minto Circle) and Aligarh Muslim University, Janardhan started his legal carrier representing high profile political figures. He has a good understanding of the political set-up and the political process across party lines in northern India and has also worked as the personal legal advisor to the Central Cabinet Ministers, helping them organise their social welfare initiatives.

At M.V.Kini he heads the Lucknow and Allahabad offices and handles the land acquisition and real estate/property portfolio in the northern India.

He maintains government relations and has established a network spanning almost every district in northern India. He handles a large number of land acquisition cases on behalf of NHAI.

He is also an expert on real estate property disputes and has been instrumental in amicably settling many family related property matters.

Janardhan has deep understanding of the difficulties faced by businesses especially in the north and is instrumental in overcoming them by bridging the communication gap between the local government/ communities and the corporate India.

Practice Areas
Project Management
Litigation

Contact details
Delhi office
janardhan@mvkini.com
(91) 11 2437 1038/1039/1040

Sumit is the lead partner at the Delhi office with over 17 years’ experience in major practice areas of MVKini. He has extensive experience in advising clients on general corporate commercial transactions, service and arbitration matters and supervising related litigation.

Sumit advises government and private sector organizations on issues relating to service and labour laws apart from other regulatory issues.

Sumit has led several corporate commercial transactions as well as high stake litigation matters involving interpretation of statutes, commercial contracts and tender documents.

He has also advised government bodies in finalisation of model agreements for use in the highway sector.

Over the years, Sumit has advised government and private sector clients in the infrastructure sector. He specialises in the highways, roads, power, railways and aviation sectors. He has been advising clients on issues regarding tenders and contracts. He is also an expert in matters related to concession, EPC and consultancy services agreements. With his experience in the infrastructure sector, he continues to provide advice to the Indian government as well as private entities.

Practice Areas
Infrastructure
Project Management
Litigation
Arbitration
Industry and Labour
Dispute Resolution
Government Affairs

Contact details
Delhi office
sumitgupta@mvkini.com
(91) 11 2437 1038/1039/1040

Els Reynaers Kini is partner at MVKini and heads the Firm’s environment practice. She has law degrees from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium (magna cum laude), and the University of Delhi, India. She completed her LL.M. at the University of Georgia, USA, which included a thesis on the regulation of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes in the US and the EU.

Before moving to India in 2001, she worked as a lawyer on environment and energy-related issues at Allen & Overy in Brussels and at Giordano & Associates in Chicago.

Prior to obtaining her Indian law degree, Els worked as a researcher at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, where she headed the Centre for Global Agreements, Legislation and Trade. She worked closely with the Government of India on its WTO trade and environment negotiations. She taught environmental law on the TERI School of Advanced Studies’ Masters Programme.

Els specialises in environmental law, food safety regulations, nuclear law and international trade disputes.

She has extensive experience assisting companies with their environmental compliances as part of due diligence exercises, ongoing business operations and litigation processes. She helps clients chalk out their compliance strategy, which often includes obtaining or renewing environmental permits under the various environmental laws (including under the water, air, hazardous wastes, hazardous chemicals, e-Waste, pesticides and Environmental Impact Assessment regulations) and guides them through their interactions with various State Pollution Control Boards and the central Ministry of Environment and Forests. She tracks developments in various multilateral environmental agreements and advises on repercussions for India-based companies.

Els is also the founder member and General Secretary of the Nuclear Law Association of India.

Els is listed in the Who’s Who of Environmental lawyers. She received the 2019 International Advisory Experts Award under the "Environmental Law Award within India" category.

Els Reynaers Kini wrote an article on “India’s Nuclear Trade-Inching Forward?” in Key Developments in Environmental Law 2014, published by Canada Law Book.

Els serves as the General Secretary of the Nuclear Law Association of India, which she helped co-found, was the President (2015-2016) of the International Nuclear Law Association, and was the Senior Vice Chair of the IBA’s Environment, Health and Safety Law Committee (2017-2018).

Practice Areas
Environmental Law
Project Finance
Corporate and Commercial
Power and Energy
Shipping and Maritime

Contact details
Mumbai office
els@mvkini.com
(+91) 98218-70055

Ram has more than 15 years’ experience in corporate law. He previously headed the legal department at Jumbo Group, India, a reputed multinational company based at Dubai, UAE with interests in multi-brand electronic retail and manufacturing, chemicals and construction. He originally joined MVKini’s Delhi office and has worked in the Mumbai office. Ram now heads the operations of the Firm’s southern offices in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Ram specializes in corporate and commercial law, M&A, telecommunication and information technology laws, investment, banking and finance, and property laws.

He also advises on trademark registration and copyrights, joint ventures and collaborations.

He has assisted renowned international companies with business ventures in India and focuses on helping clients establish and expand their India operations. This can include formation of joint ventures and other strategic alliances. He regularly advises clients on complex issues relating to business, technology and contracts law and has handled a variety of property transactions for corporate clients.

Practice Areas
Corporate and Commercial

Contact details
Southern India
rampvarma@mvkini.com
(91) 40 2790 0989

Tavinder is an Advocate on Record with the Supreme Court of India and is qualified to practice as a Solicitor in the Courts of England and Wales. Having active trial experience in mercantile, property and banking matters, he currently represents clients in matters before the Supreme Court. Tavinder’s expertise extends to issues relating to government contracts, tender laws, labour and employment related matters. He represents clients before arbitral tribunals and in appeals before various courts relating to civil engineering contracts.

Tavinder heads the environmental, health and safety (EHS) law department in the Delhi office and oversees cases before the National Green Tribunals, the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court.

He also represents clients before regulatory authorities to obtain environmental clearances and approvals relating to Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) areas, wildlife, and use of protected areas for non-forest purposes for infrastructure projects of national importance.

He regularly advises clients on laws pertaining to water pollution, hazardous waste, e-waste and plastic waste, and in this context represents clients before the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, the Central Pollution Control Board and the State Pollution Control Boards.

Practice Areas
Environmental Law
Aviation
Infrastructure
Industry and Labour
Dispute Resolution
Government Affairs

Contact details
Delhi office
sidhu@mvkini.com
(91)11 2437 1038/1039/1040

Raj is with MV Kini’sDelhi office with over 32 years’ experience in major practice areas of Banking and Finance. Raj has got her LLB and LL.M degree from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University. She has served Punjab National Bank as Law Officer from 1987 to 1996 and she was with SEBI as Division Chief (Legal) from 1996 to 2006. Post SEBI, she co-founded Zenith India Lawyers with an US Attorney.

She has vast experience in takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, reverse mergers, private equity, debt issues, IPOs on Main Boards as well as SME segments of BSE and NSE, rights issues and secondary issues (including private placements and open offers), registration of intermediaries including Portfolio Managers, FIIs and Mutual Funds with SEBI. She is also monitoring mergers, demergers and amalgamations of companies through NCLT route.

Practice Areas
Banking and Finance
Capital Market
Corporate and Commercial
Power and Energy

Contact details
Delhi Office
raj@mvkini.com
(91)11 2437 1038/1039/1040

Vidisha obtained her LL.B. degree from the Faculty of Laws at Delhi University. She also holds a degree in Journalism Honours from Delhi University. She has an LL.M. in banking and finance law from the University College London.

Having worked with India’s capital markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, she has extensive experience working in law firms as well as in the government. At the Board she was involved in policy formulation and regulation drafting and helped provide informal guidance on various delisting, buyback and takeover issues to listed companies.

Vidisha focuses on capital markets issues as well as cross-border investments into India. She advises on matters relating to RBI/FEMA aspects of cross-border transactions as well as domestic listed and unlisted company issues.

Her capital markets practice covers all aspects of RBI and SEBI laws including takeovers, public issues, private placements, alternate investment funds, eligible investor categories (FIIs, QFIs, NRIs) etc. Her expertise also extends to private equity deals, joint ventures in the corporate and commercial sector.

Vidisha has advised on various aspects of foreign investments in India by institutional and non-institutional investors on debt instruments of the Indian public sector undertakings. She has also advised on various debt issues of public sector undertakings and statutory bodies.

Practice Areas
Banking and Finance
Capital Market
Corporate and Commercial
Government Affairs
Power and Energy

Contact details
Mumbai office
vidisha@mvkini.com
(91) 22 2261 2527

Shriniwas is an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus. He heads MV Kini’s Corporate Law practice at Bangalore office. A Science and Law graduate with post graduate qualifications in Business Management, International Human Rights Law & Aviation Law, he has over 27 years of cross-functional experience across industries.

Practice Areas
Startups
Defense & Space
Information Technology

Contact details
Bangalore office
shriniwas@mvkini.com
(91) 9029 200 300

An alumnus of Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi who started his practice under Senior Advocate and Ex-Additional Solicitor General of India, gaining vast exposure to various Civil, Criminal, Taxation, Service and Constitutional matters. He has been part of the firm for considerable period and has gained experience over these years in various sectors including Highways, Aviation, Power, Telecom, Railways, Warehousing Logistics, and high value commercial contracts. AP Singh is presently doing Arbitration matters and is regularly appearing and arguing high stake matters before the Hon'ble Supreme Court and the High Courts apart from pursuing his other interest and expertise in conducting trial in corruption cases under Prevention of Corruption Act. He travels extensively across Northern India for conducting the matters before different High Courts.

Practice Areas
Infrastructure
Criminal Trial
Litigation
Arbitration
Government Affairs
Service Law

Contact details
Delhi office
apsingh@mvkini.com
(91)11 2437 1038/1039/1040

Drawing on 38 years’ experience gained from working as a general manager in a large public sector bank, Oberoi has expert knowledge of bank lending, international banking, foreign exchange, corporate debt restructuring, debt recovery and rehabilitation of distressed assets.

As part of MVKini’s litigation team, his blend of commercial banking and legal experience means he provides quick and effective solutions to complex financial, legal and real-estaterelated issues.

Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
Project Finance in Infrastructure

Contact details
Delhi office
ipsoberoi@mvkini.com
(91)11 2437 1038/1039/1040

Ved Prakash is an expert in labour laws and issues relating to employment. He is part of MVKini’s litigation team.

He has a lot of experience in preparing service rules and standing orders for employment as well as procedures relating to disciplinary actions. He specialises in documentation of agreements between contractors, sub-contractors and principal employers.

He advises clients and represents them at tribunals, commissions and courts.

Ved Prakash has mediated in and represented parties across the spectrum of labour disputes in India. He has also advised companies ensuring seamless completion of retrenchment exercise. Within his practice area of dispute resolution he has represented clients in sectors ranging from construction and engineering, entertainment and sports, hospitality, infrastructure and real estate.

Practice Areas
Industry and Labour

Contact details
Delhi office
gaur@mvkini.com
(91)11 2437 1038/1039/1040

With more than 20 years of comprehensive legal experience, Bhatia is an expert in advising international companies on their investments including setting up legal entities and doing business in India. He has extensive experience in dealing with compliance in various corporate, financial, human resource and commercial matters.

He negotiated joint venture agreements between Indian and multinational organisations with a special focus on due diligence.

He advises clients on Company Laws, Intellectual Property Rights, FEMA and Foreign Direct Investment.

Bhatia’s advice is backed with practical experience having served as a Board director of a publicly listed company for many years. He has extensive experience inadvising clients in the construction and engineering, hospitality, infrastructure and real estate sectors.He was also listed as "Leading M&A Lawyer-General Corporate Practice" by ASIALAW India Annual Review-2011.

Practice Areas
Corporate & Commercial
Banking and Finance

Contact details
Delhi office
bhatia@mvkini.com
(91)11 2437 1038/1039/1040

In the long years that B.D. Bhandary has been working with MVKini, he has developed expertise in drafting of consortium, syndication financing and security documentation, project finance, foreign currency loans, external commercial borrowing and loans documentations and solutions for complicated banking problems.

His expertise in banking comes from more than 38 years’ experience working with Syndicate Bank. He has worked in operational banking as branch manager, chief manager and assistant general manager and has extensive experience in several different areas of banking. He also headed the vigilance department at the bank and specialised in credit administration, corporate and institutional credit and recovery proceedings.

Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
Project Finance
Infrastructure Financing

Contact details
Mumbai office
bhandary@mvkini.com
(91) 22 2261 2527

Mukesh is part of MVKini’s litigation team. A well-rounded individual with an in-depth knowledge of the law, Mukesh advises public and private sector clients across a range of sectors including Arbitration & Conciliation laws and Contractual disputes, the Consumer Protection Act, Banking, Labour, Service and Land Laws

Mukesh has vast experience representing clients before the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, AAIFR and other tribunals.

Practice Areas
Litigation

Contact details
Delhi office
mukesh@mvkini.com
(91)11 2437 1038/1039/1040

Raghavendra holds a master's in mechanical engineering from the UK and is a qualified Indian Patent and Design Agent. He is also a Registered Facilitator under the Start-up India Program managed by the Government of India. At MV Kini, Raghavendra heads the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) department and oversees cases before Indian Intellectual Property Rights office.

Raghavendra started his career with research and development in manufacturing technology and later transitioned into IPR. Over the years, he has represented clients in front of the Indian IPR authorities for filing, prosecuting, obtaining, and maintaining IPRs. He also represented clients in filing opposition to grant of patents and trademarks.

Raghavendra regularly advises clients on the identification, protection, and enforcement of IPRs along with issues related to intellectual property that arise during agreements, technology transfers, software licensing, and open source licensing. He also advises clients on preparation and implementation of IPR policies.

Raghavendra is also actively involved in conducting IPR training and awareness sessions at organization and education institutions and has been a speaker at various national and international conferences.

Practice Areas
Intellectual Property Rights:
✔ Patents
✔ Design
✔ Trademark
✔ Copyright
✔ Plant Varity Act
✔ Start-up Advisory

Abhay holds LL.M. from The George Washington University School of Law in the specialized area of Litigation and International Dispute Resolution.

Abhay’s practice covers diverse areas of Corporate and Capital Markets sectors. He also provides advice and opinions on various Corporate and Commercial issues.

Abhay has been involved in advising various clients on Alternate Investment Funds (AIF), International Rupee Drawing Agreements and other corporate issues. He has been actively involved in Arbitrations and Dispute settlements for clients like the Shipping Corporation of India, Air India and ONGC.

In the past Abhay has worked as an in-house counsel for Reliance ADAG in Mumbai and has advised and assisted in matters related to takeovers, joint ventures and strategy planning in relation to litigation cases. He also has experience with IT infrastructure contracts, takeovers, overseas company incorporation joint ventures and due diligence while working with Tata America International Corporation based in New York an, American leg of Tata Consultancy Services.

Practice Areas
Litigation
Dispute Resolution

Contact details
Mumbai office
abhay@mvkini.com
+91 22 2261 2527

Padma sits within MVKini’s dispute resolution team. With her primary focus on arbitration, she has extensive experience advising clients in arbitral proceedings and in high-value arbitration-related matters in court.

Padma works with clients, advising them on a wide range of civil, commercial and constitutional law-related litigation. She regularly appears before both the original and appellate sides of the Delhi High Court, the Supreme Court of India and various statutory boards, commissions and tribunals.

She has also assisted the Delhi High Court as amicus curiae in several matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Padma graduated with academic distinctions. She previously worked as a law clerk with Honourable Ms. Justice Hima Kohli at the Delhi High Court.

Practice Areas
Litigation

Contact details
Delhi office
padma@mvkini.com
+91 11 2437 1038

Based out of MVKini’s Mumbai office, Prateush provides support to the tax desks in New Delhi. Prateush has appeared in the Bombay High Court and various benches of the Tax Tribunals across India in a large number of tax litigations. He has successesfully represented several leading manufacturing, engineering, logistics and service sectors companies in tax litigation cases.

The law graduate has nearly twenty years of experience in areas like foreign trade policy (FTP), customs, excise and service tax. His other areas of practice include anti-dumping, FEMA (forex laws) and legal metrology (weights and measures law).

His experienceposure into trade policy and trade taxes arena is multi-dimensional –, he hasving served in the Federal Department of Revenue for more than fifteen years; he has worked a decade and a half, in the area at a law firm and also inin a large manufacturing conglomerate. This experience helped Prateush develop strong analytical and problem solving abilities in representations before authorities.

Prateush has headed the tax function of a 5bn compan. He also lead its risk analysis and management teams developing risk management modules for internal health checks, statutoryaudits and concurrent risk audits.

Prateush is an expert in creating an efficient compliance function for businesses and helping them adhere to statutory reporting requirements with accuracy by creating system based tools with a key focus on development and implementation of process improvements to improve efficiency and effectiveness. His core competencies also include rigorous implementation of compliance tools, consistent delivery of group tax reporting framework and analysis of tax implications to minimise the organisation’s tax exposure.

Practice Areas
Taxation

Contact details
Mumbai office
prateush@mvkini.com
+91 22 2261 2527

Junaid started his career in law as central government counsel in Delhi’s High Court where he represented the government of India. Since then he has gained a wealth of arbitration experience both before the court and arbitral tribunals in the context of major infrastructure contracts for projects on item-rate and Build Operate Transport basis. He is an expert in contracts based on FIDIC conditions of consultancy services contracts.

Junaid’s breadth of experience regarding domestic & international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution means he advises numerous private and government clients alike.

Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution

Contact details
Delhi office
junaid@mvkini.com
+91 11 2437 1038

Srinivasa, a senior advisor at MVKini, is a retired bank executive with close to four decades experience in bank management, legal and recovery functions. He brings a wealth of banking and finance experience to the job. For the past thrre years he has been instrumental as part of the team responsible for Indian Bank’s turnaround. He is currently a member of MVKini project finance team apart from representing the firm’s banking clients before several tribunals, forums and courts.

Srinivasa is an expert in consortium loans and syndication of loans. He drafts documents relating to bank, consortium and syndicated loans for infrastructure projects. He previously served as a member of the Legal Committee of Indian Banks’ Association.

Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
Project Finance in Infrastructure

Contact details
Bengaluru office
srinivasrao@mvkini.com

In legal practice since 1997, this Madras Law College graduate also has a post-graduate diploma in company law, banking and insurance law.

In a career spanning 27 years, he has worked in the public and private sector, providing specialised commercial-legal services. He has worked in the legal department for large-sized fertilizer, chemical, boiler, cement and sugar plants. His work included drafting, vetting, negotiation and finalisation of contracts with overseas and Indian parties for joint venture arrangements and transfer of technology, expertise, basic and detailed engineering, procurement of equipment/supplies, inspection and expediting services. Apart from providing contract management services at post-contract stage covering drafting, negotiation and finalisation of agreements with sub-contractors, collaborators and vendors, he also has experience working with construction and project management. He provides in-house legal advice, makes claims, issues notices and demands and takes care of legal correspondences.

Ramaswamy devises strategies and prosecution of claims and disputes through courts arbitral tribunals, appointment and briefing of counsels as well as control and co-ordination thereafter.

He provides legal counsel and provides specialised client services - advice on legal strategy, legal opinion, drafting and vetting of statement of claims, replies and counter statements, counter claims, rejoinders and sur-rejoinders. He makes affidavits, statements and submissions and applications under sections 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 33, 34 and 37 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act. He acts as the arguing counsel before arbitral tribunals representing clients in high profile disputes relating to big infrastructure projects all over India.

Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Litigation

Contact details
New Delhi office
vramaswamy@mvkini.com
+91 11 2437 1038

An IIM Ahmedabad alumnus and ex-Indian Air Force officer, Wing Commander Shriniwas Mishra acquired qualifications in Aviation Law and Human Rights Law from top Indian Law Universities like NALSAR Hyderabad and NLSIU Bangalore. A Certified Project Management Professional, he is a member of Project Management Institute USA. He is empanelled as an expert with Indo-European Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IECCI).

A professional with 20+ years of experience in Operations and Strategy in Defense & Aerospace, Aviation and Finance industry, he has been consultant to some of the top MNCs and Indian companies. An Air Transport Pilot with close to 3000 hours of flying experience in multi-engine aircraft, he is one of the rare aviators with Law and Business Management qualifications. He also extensively writes on Regulatory and Strategic issues in prominent civil aviation journals.

Practice Areas
Aviation
Aerospace & Defense

Contact details
Mumbai office
shriniwas@mvkini.com
+91 22 2261 2527

Jaya holds LL.M. from Mumbai University in the specialized area of Business Laws and has been with M.V. Kini Law firm since 2010.

She has extensive experience in advising clients on various commercial contracts. Her areas of practice covers various corporate and aviation laws and advising clients in the government and private sector.

Jaya has extensive experience in drafting, vetting and negotiating of various corporate and commercial agreements such as tender documents, lease agreements, leave and license agreement, sale deeds, standard ground handling agreements, code-share agreements, non-disclosure agreements, novation space, cargo novation airline merchant processing agreement, credit card referral agreement, and all other types of commercial deeds and documents.

She has also given legal opinions on various subjects related to corporate, aviation laws, commercial laws and other legal aspects.

Practice Areas
Aviation
Infrastructure and
Commercial Contracts

Contact details
Mumbai office
jaya@mvkini.com
+91 22 2261 252

Mr. G. Gopalakrishna is Senior Advisor Banking & Finance in the Mumbai office. He is currently assisting our firms clients in conducting Forensic Audit for Fraud and Risk detection.

Before joining MVKini, he has had a long and prestigious career with over 37 years of experience in banking and finance.

G. Gopalakrishna served as an Executive Director, RBI from 2007 to 2014 and was overseeing the Department of Banking Supervision, Department of Non-Banking Supervision, Financial Stability Unit, Department of Communication, Department of Information Technology, Secretary’s Department, Foreign Exchange Department, Department of Payment and Settlement System of the RBI.

He further headed the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC). After taking VRS from RBI in April 2014 he was appointed as Director, Centre for Advanced Research and Learning (CAFRAL -promoted by RBI) which post he held until April 2017.

He was the Chairman and Member of several Working Groups set up by the RBI and Government of India. He chaired the Working Group on Information Security, Electronic Banking Technology, Risk Management and Cyber Frauds, the recommendations of which have been implemented. He also authored the RBI’s Central Credit Registry for reporting large value credits.

Practice Areas
Banking & Finance
NPA Management
Fraud and Risk Management
Capacity Building
Cyber Security

Contact details
Mumbai office
ggopalakrishna@mvkini.com
(91) 022 6666 4298/99

Prateek is a versatile tax professional and holds a dual qualification of a Chartered Accountant as well as a lawyer. He specialises in direct tax litigation, advisory and international taxation issues.

His tax experience includes advising on domestic as well as cross-border transaction structuring, withholding tax, permanent establishment, transfer pricing, inbound/outbound investment and exit strategies, profit repatriation strategies, demergers and re-organisations for both domestic and international clients.

He has been extensively involved in representing various private sector and PSU clients such as NHAI, Air India and NPCIL, in tax related dispute resolution before various tax authorities, appellate tribunals and the high court.

Prateek also has experience in indirect taxation particularly in service tax, customs and corporate laws, and has represented a trade association in a public hearing before the Directorate General (Safeguards).

Moreover, Prateek has played an important role in developing the insolvency law practice of the firm.

He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a member of the Bombay Chartered Accountants Society and the Chamber of Tax Consultants.

Practice Areas
Direct Tax Litigation and Advisory
International Taxation
Merger & Acquisition related Tax advisory
Private Equity Taxation

Contact details
Mumbai office
prateekgoyal@mvkini.com
+91 (22) 6666 4298/ 98

Gautambala is Principal Associate at MV. Kini. She has a postgraduate degree in Human Rights from the Mumbai University. She comes with extensive experience in the environmental legal field, and before joining the law firm, was a standing Counsel in the Mumbai High Court for the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for 10 years. She has a wide-ranging experience in dealing with other litigation matters as well. Previously, Gautambala was a Law Officer in the Environment Department of the Government of Maharashtra.

Gautambala regularly interacts with the Environment Department and the MPCB on behalf of our corporate clients in the context of environmental compliances. She also assists companies in obtaining and renewing their environmental permits under various environmental laws. Apart from her expertise in environmental law and regulatory matters, she assists our clients with their corporate contracts too.